Autographic register.



W. D. HART.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

APPLICATION men JuLVY 1o. ma.

Patented June 20, 1916.

WLLIAM D. naar, oF'ArLANirA, esonera.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER Application inea July 1o, 1913.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM D. HART, citizen of the United States, residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Autographic Registers, of which the following is a specication.

My present invention pertains to cash registers or sales registers of the autographic type.

lOne of the objects of the invention is to provide an autographic register embodying such a construction and relative arrangement of elements that the entry of each sale will be attended by the making of a permanent record in the register, and the making of duplicate bills on a single continuous strip that is fed out of the register so that one bill can be given a customer and the other bill retained by the salesman.

Other advantageous characteristics of the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claim when the same are read in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly broken away7 illustrative of a register embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic viewv illustrative of the relative arrangement of the two strips of paper or other suitable material employed in the machine. Fig. 3 is a detail plan hereinafter specifically referred to.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

The casing of my novel register may be of the construction illustrated or of any other suitable construction without affecting my in vention. rllhe said casing is provided in its top wall 1 with a transparent panel 2 and an. opening 3 below which opening a writing table a is arranged as shown. It will also be understood from Fig. 1 that the casing is provided at 5 with an eduction opening for the strip 6, Fig. 2, that is designed to bear the duplicate bills, and that the strip-support ing rollers 7 and 8 are arranged adjacent the ends ofthe writing table.

Suitably mounted inthe casing is the roll 9 that carries the duplicate-bill strip 6, and the roll 10 that carries the permanent-record strip 11; and also arranged in the casing is the roll 13 for taking up the permanentrecord strip, said roll 13 being driven from Specification of Iietteis Patent.

Patented June 20, 1916.

Serial No. 778,309.

the lower of the two draw rolls 14 through the medium of the train of gearing 15, Fig. 1. At 15 and 16 the machine is provided with draw rolls connected by intermeshed gears, and the lower of the said rolls viz the roll 16 is designed to be provided with the conventional crank or other suitable means through which the roll can be manually rotated. The said crank or other operating means, however, forms no part of my invention and I therefore deemed it unnecessary to illustrate the same.V The roll 16 is provided at one end with a miter gear 17, Fig. 3, and intermeshed with said gear is a miter gear 18 on a longitudinal shaft 19 that is also'provided with a miter gear 20 intermeshed with a miter gear 21 on the upper of the two rolls 14, whereby it will be seen that the said roll 14 isdriven from the .roll 16. 1t will also be observed that the upper of the two rolls 14 is connected by intermeshed gears with the lower roll 13.

Suitably supported above the writing table 4 and retained in position by the conventional means illustrated or any other means compatible with my invention are carbon sheets or other suitable manifolding sheets 22 and 23.

From the roll 10 the permanent record strip 11 is carried upwardly and forwardly and around the rear roller 7, from whence said strip is carried rearwardly over the writing table and under the opening 8 and the glass panel 2 in the order named, and is taken up in a step by step manner on the roll 13. The duplicate bill strip G passes forwardly and upwardly from the roll 9 to the forward roller 7, and is then carried rearwardly at the opposite side of the carbon paper 22, with reference to the strip 11, after which it is formed into a bight around the roller 8, and is then carried forwardly above the carbon paper 23 and between the draw rolls 15 and 1G and through the opening 5 in the casing. By virtue of this manner of disposing the strips 11 and 6 it will be manifest that the entry of a single sale or other transaction is attended by the production of duplicate bills on the strip G, one of said entries or rather one bill being produced on the portion of the strip 6 below the carbon paper 23, and the other bill being produced on the portion of the strip 6 above the carbon paper 23; also, that the said entry will be accompanied by the production of a record on the portion of the strip 11 that is below the carbon paper 22 andV above the writing table 11, which record will eventually be taken u on the roll 13 and preserved for future re erence.

The courses of the strips 11 and 6, and the arrangement of said strips, relatively'to the carbon papers 22 and 23, the' table 4, the opening 3 in the top wall 1 of the casing, andthe several rolls, are clearly shown in Fig. 2; and

it is therefore deemed unnecessary to show V Y theV same in Fig. 1.

It will be; gathered from the foregoing that my invention embodies but two strips y notwithstanding three simultaneous Vcopies are made,v of each transaction entered on the uppermost stretch of the strip 6 which is an important step forward in the art inasmuch as it conduces to compactness and simplicity of construction. It will also be gathered thatreach strip 6 and 11 is moved independently of and without interference from the other, and that the strip 6 is fed out ofthe machinecasing in the direction Vin Ywhich the operator looks whilel manipulating the register. Y Y Y Y The sockets 30 shown in Fig. 1v on one side of the casing 1 are comprised in the conventional means for retaining the carbon sheets in position, andrform no part, of my invention.

Having. described my invention, What I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Pat- Y ent, is: Y

.The combination in a register, of a casing having an eduction opening and also having 4v an opening in Vits top wall and Va writing v table arranged below said -openi-ng and spaced from said top wall, draw-rolls mount- Copives of, this patent may be obtained for ed in the casing immediately in rear of the eduction opening and arranged one above the other and adapted to give oif strips, strip-supporting rollers mounted one in front ofand slightly above the other in the casing between the writing table and said draw-rolls, a strip-supporting roller mounted in the casingin rear of and adjacent to upper duplicating sheet and around the stripsupporting roller in rear of the writing table and then forwardly over the upper duplicating sheet and between the draw-rolls and through the eduction opening, and means intermediate one of said draw rolls and said taking-up means for operating the latter by the former. v

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM D. HART.

Witnesses: Y

HENRY W. DAVIS1 ED. BANDLER, J r.

ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patenti, Washington, D. 

